In "Captain Falcon's Twister Race, " an F-Zero shout out, you hold the GamePad vertically, viewing the action top-down while twisting the controller left or right to guide a racer along a flashing track.

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Down a narrow, twisting alley leading off of their street, under balconies filled with children and the mutts that wander throughout all the favelas, and up a steep set of stairs is a recording studio crammed incongruously into a space about the size of a Manhattan walk-in closet.

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He was holding the phone in both hands like a steering wheel, twisting it up and down to navigate around obstacles at high speed.

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The men wrangled with the roots, twisting them back and forth, up and down, like sailors battling a sea monster.

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Along the twisting mountain road, huge boulders had rolled down in rock slides.

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The air is so thin that the first glimmer of sun can throw it into violent convection, lofting up into towering thermals, twisting into dust devils, and collapsing back down as they cool.

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Using a selection of hip-hop songs that are "positive and sexy, " the class begins simply and works up to a sweaty, hip-twisting, shoulder-shaking finale, followed by a cool-down.

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Raking your fingernails down the shell does more damage to your digits than the device itself, and no amount of bending or twisting will cause it to yield.

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